Mac users froth, while Linux users befriend: Here's a pretty funny story about a USA Today writer, Andrew Kantor, who penned a piece about the supercomputer at the University of Virgina that's made out of G5 Macs. We've talked about this computer several times. A Mac site took…
Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher: A lot has been written about Virginia Tech's Mac-based supercomputer. This, however, is one of the more in-depth pieces, concentrating on Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan — the guy who built it — and why exactly he chose the now-infamous route he did. "A prime constraint…
Virginia Tech recently announced their intentions to build a new supercomputer using dual 2GHz G5 Macs. Yesterday they presented some of the details of the project. Of particular interest is that it will cost $5.2 million and they want it in place by October in order to qualify for the…
